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Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future

Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.

Timothy Keller
God, Pain, Past
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.40, Penguin

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

Timothy Keller
God, Religious, Pain
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.46, Penguin

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

Timothy Keller
God, Jesus, Pain
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.123, Penguin

No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

Timothy Keller
God, Pain, Good Life
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.12, Penguin

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

Timothy Keller
Pain, Suffering, Pain And Suffering
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.13, Penguin

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

Timothy Keller
God, Christian, Pain
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.58, Penguin

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

Timothy Keller
Pain, Essence, Giving

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

Timothy Keller
God, Pain, Joy
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

Timothy Keller
God, Pain, Ocean

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

Timothy Keller
God, Meaningful, Pain
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Timothy Keller
God, Pain, Grief
Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin

Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever.

Timothy Keller
God, Pain, Mean
"Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

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